Earth Day, which is April 22, is a great time to be thankful for and bring attention to this beautiful world that we live in.
I love having picnics with my kids. They seem to delight and fascinate in the smallest of things… calling attention to details that I would normally take for granted.
They have this inner joy and peace in their surroundings… seeing a ladybug crawling up a long blade of grass or a butterfly slowly dancing through flower blossoms.
I love that we get to spend time together outside breathing in clean fresh air and seeing the glorious nature that God created.
I am trying to do everything I can to make sure my children always have a blue sky to gaze into!
This year, The Nature Conservatory is putting together a global effort to help preserve the earth. They want to give back to this beautiful earth that we call home, and I think that is great!
In addition to their tireless dedication to preserving the earth, they have graciously offered to give away one totally stocked picnic basket valued at $75 to a lucky reader!
This fabulous basket includes:
Coleman Collapsible canvas basket lined with gingham fabric
Official Picnic for the Planet merchandise (water bottle, tee, blanket, temporary tattoo)
Reusable bamboo utensil set by To-Go Ware
Popchips
Peeled Snacks organic dried fruit
Green and Black chocolate bar
Back to Nature crackers and cookies
Burt’s Bees chap-stick
To be entered to win all you need to do is tell me, “How do you plan to celebrate Earth Day?”
For additional entries: (please leave a separate comment for each additional entry)
Tweet: Celebrate #EarthDay with a Picnic & win a Picnic Basket worth $75 from @nature_org & @iambakertweets http://bit.ly/HLegFT #picnic12
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Several other bloggers are participating and giving away these fun baskets! Feel free to stop some some of these amazing blogs and comment for another chance to win!
Earth Day Cookies and Picnic for the Planet Giveaway by Tidymom
Picnic for the Planet Giveaway by All Day I Dream About Food
Goat Cheese Walnut & Berry Bites from A Spicy Perspective
Picnic Recipe Ideas for Earth Day 2012 by Cookin’ Canuck
Celebrating Earth Day with Picnic for the Planet by Gourmande in the Kitchen
Asian Napa Cabbage Carrot Salad Recipe by Jeanette’s Healthy Living
A special thanks to Sylvie from Gourmande in the Kitchen for organizing this effort. Sylvie’s blog and heart are both amazing and I am thankful to know her!
Official rules here.
This contest is open to the whole world! However, the rules and regulations for prizes and giveaway guidelines are specific to my country, the USA. By entering this contest you agree to those terms. Official rules here.
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I’m so glad you reminded me! We hadn’t thought about it! Hopefully my husband will be off work so we can go hiking. We’ve been meaning to take our 16-month old on our favorite trail before we move to another state. Earth Day sounds like the perfect time!
I love Earth Day! This year, we will be going to church and working on our garden in the afternoon. Thanks for the giveaway!
I plan on working in my new raised garden beds. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m working with my co-workers to create a vegetable garden at our workplace!
Having a birthday party.
Taking a bike ride
A friend is having a birthday party for her son. In lieu of presents, she’s asked every child to bring a used book to trade with another.
For Earth Day, we’re going to plant a garden with our girls.
On Earth Day I am actually already planning a picnic up in the mountains near a creek for my boyfriend’s birthday. It’s a surprise and I’ve bough paper lanterns and all sorts of cute decorations to set up a little refuge in the forest. I can’t wait to surprise him.
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Hopefully the weather will be nice and I can get out for a long jog…or at least a walk!
probably will do a craft/collage made with recyclables with the kiddos
I may go for a long run WITHOUT my iPod to remind myself of the natural atmosphere and soak it all in! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love Earth Day! This year I’ll be spending it shoveling snow! We were “blessed” with 132 inches of snow this year, so I’m trying to hurry spring along, helping to make my yard a greener place!
Every year my son and I go to see the new Disney Nature film being released for Earth Day. He loves that a portion of the monies received goes to a specific fund each year to assist the animals we learn about in the films.
I also plan on installing a rain barrel.
We’ll celebrate with a belated camping trip! Although we won’t do much on the actual day, our family loves to take part in keeping things as green as we can!
Such sweet pics of your kiddos!
I will spend as much time outside as possible =)
What sweet pictures of your kids. And that one of the butterfly is beautiful! My kids adore picnics, too – it really is a special time with them.
I almost forgot about earth day! If I can get my work done, I’d love to go for a long walk or explore a new park.
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I love the picture of your cute kids enjoying nature and a nice picnic. Thanks for keeping us all mindful of our responsibility to keep our environment clean for our kids and grandkids.
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go to a picnic or find a place to plant a tree
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We’ll be at church and working outside in our vegetable beds and weeding our berry plants…and decompressing from our weekend at the homeschool convention!
I liked the nature conservancy on facebook
Earth day is my birthday, so I plan on celebrating
Hopefully with this picnic basket
I hope to go on a picnic if it’s warm enough!
Hopefully it will be warm enough to plant our flower boxes.
Working on my garden and cooking some meals at home for the week.
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I plan on taking a ferry (BC Ferries in Canada) back home, through the Gulf Islands, and marvel at the beautiful world we live in, and how lucky we are to be here.
We will take a trip to Washington, DC and have a picnic by the reflecting pool.
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planting our vegetable garden and composting.
I don’t have a lot of plans, but hopefully the weather will cooperate so we can get some gardening done.
I take the kids to a huge Earth Day celebration at Forest Park with thousands of our closest friends!
doing some park cleanup with cub scouts my son troop
I will be planting some vegetables and fruits in my garden.
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We are celebrating the day before (Saturday) by organizing a neighborhood cleanup/community garden day and then heading to our city’s Earth Day celebration/Earth Fair.
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Sunday I’m going to church, but the day before that I’m going to go help landscape the elementary school I attended :]
I have many seeds to plant with my grandsons and Earth day sounds like a great day to do so.
I will probably do some work in my garden.
We’re going to get a jump start on our garden! We love growing our own fruits and vegetables to enjoy!
I plan to visit the local park in Nashville
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I plan to spend the day in the garden .
I plan to spend the day with my vegetables in the garden!
I am walking everywhere I go. Or biking if it’s too far!
We are planting. And we will clean up a walking trail.
I follow Nature Conservatory on Facebook.
Since it’s a Sunday, I think we’ll spend some time together as a family…outside! Maybe we’ll go for a bike ride at one of our favorite parks, then have a picnic lunch or dinner afterwards.
I’ve recently brought my partner to my home town of Perth, Australia – so I think we will be spending Earth Day having a lovely picnic in gorgeous Kings Park which overlooks the city and enjoy listening to the warbling magpies and laughing kookaburras while eating scrummy picnic food and just being generally thankful for being able to live in such a beautiful country. After that we’ll help my mum plant a whole load of new vegetables in her veggie boxes in the garden, feed the chooks and gather some eggs.
We will be picnicking and enjoying the great weather .
lying in the sun, giving thanks to Mother Earth, and starting our vegetable garden!
My kiddies and I will be planting flowers and some vegetables in the garden!
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We’re going to review Creation and what the Bible says about stewardship. We will also look at ways we are/are not the stewards we ought to be.
i plan on going on a nature walk! this picnic basket would be perfect
Ahhh finally a contest I can enter!! Ill be spending my earth day with my 2 little girls that I nanny… making crafts and playing outside(hopefully the weather is great!) being able to take them in a picnic would make their day I’m sure, so I think winner or not I’ll fit it into our (not so) busy schedule:p
I plan to plant some flowers, picnic with the kids and spend some time in the (hopefully) sun! It’s going to be lovely!
What a beautiful capture of the butterfly, and thank you my sweet friend for being a part of this! xo
I have several new plants that I will be getting in the ground, working on my garden, and making birdfeeders with the grandkids.
I will be bike riding and gardening!
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My husband and I plan to go out back, and walk in the closest 4.7-acre Township Park (and, if necessary, pick up/discard walkway trash again!!) The Park is part regular-cut-grass field; part natural field; part trees; part playground equipment and *tiny* open-air Pavilion; and just a little bit of everything!! ‘Just *L.*O.*V.*E.* it, for my Nature “fix”!!
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We are going to church and then going to a baptism celebration! I hope you enjoy your day!
My daughters and I will be making plans for our container gardening we want to start this year. Can’t wait!
We will be planting our garden, picking up trash and enjoying the fresh air before it gets to hot down here in the South!
i am going to finally take my recyclables to recycle
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Helping my parents with their huge garden!
I tweeted the giveaway.
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I am going to plant a tree and celebrate my brothers’s birthday!
Well, since my darling husband’s birthday falls on Earth Day we will celebrate together as a family with a delicious cake. Sometimes, we go with the earth day theme for his cake…he never seems to mind!
I’ll be celebrating Earth Day by attending a 6 year old birthday party. It’s probably the 10th birthday party we’ve attending this spring. I need a picnic to unwind
I am going to take my students on a trash pick-up around the school.
If the weather is nice, I hope to spend the whole day in the garden.
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My husband and I are both participating in the Great Cloth Diaper Change! It is where people worldwide change diapers at the same time to bring awareness of how cloth diapering can really help reduce waste. I did it last year too, and it was a lot of fun!
Planting in my garden. I bring my baby girl with me and she always falls asleep, listening to the birds chirping and feeling the breeze on her face. Can’t wait til the flowers bloom and the fruits and vegetables start growing!
we will be having my son’s birthday party.
plant a new tree in our front yard.
I now follow the Nature Conservatory on Facebook.
I am celebrating Earth Day all year! I’m doing “buy no new clothes 2012″ to consume less and focus on using what I have.
By taking the bus, walking, not using the lights, and not using the computer!
I plan to put out my rain barrels on Earth Day!
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I tweeted!
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I tweeted about earth day
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I plan to walk to my favorite coffee shop instead of driving to it.
It’ll be too cold for a picnic here, rats! We’ll go to church, have a nice lunch, and play outside.
my daughter,myself and classmates are going into town to pickup garbage thanks
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For Earth Day I am planning on going around my office & taking everything that can be recylced & showing my coworkers that instead of throwing it in the garbage, they can recycle it. I am also going to do some gardening by spreading some coffee grounds from a coffee company I got for free and use it. I am also going to do some yard clean up
I plan on spending Earth day with my kids and I cleaning up the litter that tends to line our road. It’s very common for people to throw trash out of their cars here, which is terrible.
I plan on taking my granddaughter to the park on Earth Day.
I will be taking a walk with friends at the park.
We are going to our community earth day expo.
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We’re working on our summer garden preparations and having friends over for dinner–and eating outside, of course!
Amanda, thanks so much for supporting The Nature Conservancy this Earth Day! That photo of your kids is adorable. Cheers to a fun family picnic!
-Madeline, The Nature Conservancy
I usually grab my son and a garbage bag and go for a walk, picking up all the garbage I see lying around in the grass, along the walking trail, etc.
I am celebrating Earth day at the Coachella Music festival
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To use less electricity
I’m planting a tree in our city project.
On earth day, I plan on cleaning up the garden and bring out the lawn furniture, and hopefully have a glass of tea when I am done if it is warm enough to stay outside that long!
We’ll be attending an earth day celebration in our town green.
I plan to celebrate Earth Day by working in my garden, maybe taking a hike and picking up trash along the way.
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We will go to church and then head out for a family bike ride.
celebrating my sister in law’s birthday
already picked up garbage in town with daughter and classmates
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thanks and have a great day
This year, we are going to have a picnic in the park and then we are going to walk the trails near our home. We always see animals and my three year old just loves to be out in nature. Thanks for the giveaway!
My daughter and I went to an Earth Day celebration at a state park today. It was lots of fun!
Earth Day also happens to be my adopted twin boys birthday! So we spend Earth Day celebrating the joy that these two guys have brought into our lives the past 7 years! I am so thankful God chose me to be their momma.
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I spent the day walking around our college campus with my friends.
We just spent the day enjoying the sunshine and warmth.
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We worked in the garden today
I celebrated Earth Day inside as it poured all day – so I used some of my basket weaving stash and hand wove a basket for a friend.
We were going to spend it outdoors but it was just a yucky day. Wound up watching a movie with our church youth group.
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How cool! We made globe pancakes (and showed our son where he lives on the pancake “map”), built window boxes, and put birdseed out for the birds in our new bird feeder.
Spent part of the day weeding my flower bed while coldest played in the mud.
Oops! *Oldest* (not coldest)
Admired so much, enjoy to have picnic wit children.
Such a sweet post, Amanda! I have been meaning to have a picnic with my kids lately too. We did spend Earth Day outside playing in our garden and with our chickens, so I guess that counts for something